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U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley was determined to hold a Security Council

April 18, 2017.

    meeting on the importance of human rights to international peace and security and
    it will happen on Tuesday — but only after the U.S. addressed objections from Russia,
    China and other council members.
    Haley told reporters at the start of the U.S. presidency of the U.N.'s most powerful body in
    early April that she wanted a meeting that didn't "point fingers at anyone" but looked at
    underlying human rights issues that lead to conflict and unrest.
    As examples, she cited student protests against Syrian President Bashar Assad that
    sparked the six­year conflict, the self­immolation of a Tunisian fruit vendor who was
    harassed by police and not able to work that sparked nationwide demonstrations, and
    massive rights violations in North Korea.
    But Russia's deputy U.N. ambassador Petr Iliichev took issue with the premise of the
    proposed debate saying: "A general statement that international peace and security are
    threatened by human rights violations is not true."
    He also argued that other U.N. bodies including the Geneva­based Human Rights Council
    and the General Assembly already deal with human rights. "Why are we taking everything
    to the Security Council? Then those bodies should be dismantled," Iliichev said.
    Haley said the U.S. wanted the debate on April 18, with Secretary­General Antonio
    Guterres briefing


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